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Cake day: December 3rd, 2023

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  • Not the one you are replying to but I was thinking about what is now popular in Europe: instead of big solar farm, it’s more € 4 000 system with a bit more than a 1.5 KW of balcony solar, and a small 3 or 4 kw battery inside the home associated with a smart meter that doesn’t allow the current to flow back to the grid. It cannot allow for off-the-grid living but it does keep the grid safe and decentralizes energy generation. With the possibility of a call to share in case there is a catastrophic event.







  • Proposer de redessiner les frontières de l’est de l’UE est la proposition LFI qui marque leur allégeance. C’est outrepasser la libre détermination et la souveraineté de ces états.

    La fascination et le culte de la personnalité qu’engendre Mélenchon sur le reste de LFI, au point d’exclure, de harceler tout membre qui n’entre pas dans ce culte et se permet de contredire Mélenchon est , par définition, un aspect fasciste au sein de ce parti. Il y a aussi un phénomène d’abrutissement des masses en restant sur des sujets sociétaux plutôt que politiques.






  • It has never been meant to be a peacekeeping force but a dissuasive force. It is meant to be on Ukraine’s side from day one, not one to be in the middle. And that’s a good thing in my book. There clearly is a victim and a criminal here.

    It still will be dissuasive because western soldiers and western air forces will still be used on the ground and in the skies of Ukraine. This was the French vision ( having the troops sent there be used not on watchtower duty but to make the ukrainians into the future EU armed forces by integrating western millitary standards into the ukrainian armed forces ) It’s good the UK sides with that vision.

    If they wanted peacekeeping, the Russian proposition of putting UN troops as a peacekeeping force would have done the job.



  • The only thing is negociation time. It takes a very long time to strike such accords and the political time in the US is very short.

    Everything could be reversed tomorrow or in 2 years or never or be rereversed in 4…

    Trade deals among stable countries usually account for longer lifespans to assure the market they can deploy and still benefit from it in 20 years.

    It takes an especially long time with the EU as you need all 27 countries to accept it through each parliament and sometimes referendums and account for incoming countries. Any “no” is a veto of the whole accord. And you have to start all the negotiation from scratch.


  • It reminds me a lot of the first things that A. Hitler did in Germany after being elected. Putting the problem away.

    But just like the Nazis of old, this government is going to start thinking about a way to keep putting the problem away at a lesser cost, especially once ICE get too many deportees to keep flying them out without humongous logistics.

    They are going to hit the same hurdles, and (hopefully not) deal with them in the same way.